"You can just reply at random. My classmate was walking on the street and ran into a black guy. And the black guy was like, "Hey, do you have some bucks?" And my friend went ,"Sorry, I only have Starbucks." Then he showed the guy his starbucks and left. The black guy just stood there, dumbfounded. When he told everyone else, they told him he was actually getting robbed lol."
"Some foreigners have a really artistic way of robbing people. Like my friend got accosted by some black guy in American, and he demanded my friend buy his CDs and wouldn't let him leave."
"I've done something similar. Don't copy me, though. Some black guy demanded money from me, and I just told him that if he needed money, he should go find some work. "You were born in America and I'm just an immigrant. If even I can keep myself alive, why should you get away with demanding money from other people?" Then I introduced him to some laundromat assistant or supermarket jobs and he was actually really grateful."
"Our teacher said during class that when he was studying in America, he got held up at gunpoint and the black guy wanted 5 bucks. He pulled out a 10 dollar bill, and the guy refused to take it and insisted he wanted 5 bucks."
"Just give him 10 bucks and have him put it on your account for the next time you get mugged."
"The first time a homeless guy asked for money from me to buy a burger with, I didn't have any cash on me, but I thought he was actually starving, so I opened up my book bag and gave him my snack—a box of milk and a bread roll. He said he didn't want it, and I actually chased after him trying to press the bread into his hands. Now that I think back, he was looking at me like I was r-slurred or something."
"I've seen this post on a rental website in Baltimore. The guy who posted was a PhD who was walking back to his rental apartment after doing some experiments. It was snowing really hard that night, so he tried to take a short cut through the park, and got mugged by some black guy. The black guy took all the money that was on him, and just as he was about to leave, the black guy noticed he was wearing a brand new winter jacket. So the black guy forced him to take off his jacket, leaving him shivering in short sleeves. The black guy looked at him and gave him his old winter jacket and walked away in his new jacket happily. The poor guy was really depressed and had to walk home in that stinky old jacket, and half way home, he reached into his pocket, and it was full of cash."
"Riding the subway at 1AM in London, and this middle-aged white man came over, chatted me up, and randomly asked, "How big are you?" I thought he was asking how old I was [big and old can sometimes be used interchangeably in Chinese], so I was like, "23." And his eyes lit up and asked if I wanted to come over to his place. Then I realised what was happening and ran away."
"I walked passed a drunkard in Scotland, and he suddenly went, "You're beautiful." My brain went on automatic and I blurted out, "You too." We were both guys, and we both froze."
"I went to England in the summer of 2018 and ran into a homeless guy on the street who kept playing, "Any unnecessary changes?" [任何多余的改变] on his phone. Neither me nor my boyfriend could figure out what was going on. It took a long time before it occurred to us that he probably typed in, "any spare change?""
"When I pretend to be Japanese in America and say I don't speak Chinese, black people and homeless people just bow to me and leave me alone."
"When I was studying in America, I ran into a kid yelling "ice cream!" at us. At the time, I didn't know "ice cream" was a racial slur. He saw we didn't have much of a reaction, so he yelled something like "da nao ka", and we still didn't get it. So we asked him what he was trying to say, and he was like, "Frick you in Chinese." (He looked like he'd just started primary school and he seemed really proud of his Chinese). So we spent a while correcting his pronunciation, and after half an hour, he walked away with the most perfectly pronounced Chinese slurs. He even sincerely thanked us. I hope the next international student he runs into has good luck."
"You guys are memeing, but I actually got robbed with a gun to my head."
"A couple of years ago, I was in London, walking out of a small supermarket, and this black guy came up and asked for change. I opened my eyes really wide and sincerely asked him what "change" meant. The black guy wracked his brain and finally came out with, "Queen's head." And I asked him what "head" meant. Man, that was an exhausting performance."
"My client is from America. After we were done talking business, he said that he posted his new song to youtube, that he was a rapper, and asked me to show my support there."
"When I was studying in America, this Chinese classmate of mine said that he got really hungry one night and went to McDonalds and saw a black guy demanding money from a white guy there. And the white guy was like "Hold on a minute and let me make my order, and I'll give you whatever change I have." And the black guy agreed. So I guess mugging is something you can politely negotiate through."
"A couple of days ago, I went to CVS and got intercepted by this super tall, super strong-looking black guy. He said he didn't have enough money to get what he wanted and asked if I could give him some. I didn't dare to say no, so I gave him all the change in my pocket. And then I watched as he stuffed the money in his pocket, didn't buy anything, and just walked out the store. The alarms went crazy as he left, but nobody tried to stop him."
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